Research Topics | M Scott ShellSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Systematic coarse-graining of potential energy landscapes and dynamics in liquidsM Scott Shell
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 5080, USA
J Chem Phys 137:084503. 2012....
A test on peptide stability of AMBER force fields with implicit solvationM Scott Shell
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 5080, USA
J Phys Chem B 112:6878-86. 2008..Overall, this work indicates that some of these all-atom physics-based force fields may be good starting points for protein folding and protein structure prediction...
The relative entropy is fundamental to multiscale and inverse thermodynamic problemsM Scott Shell
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
J Chem Phys 129:144108. 2008....
Blind test of physics-based prediction of protein structuresM Scott Shell
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Biophys J 96:917-24. 2009..This approach may also be useful for predicting physical protein folding routes, non-native conformations, and other physical properties from amino acid sequences...
The protein folding problemKen A Dill
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Annu Rev Biophys 37:289-316. 2008....
A new multiscale algorithm and its application to coarse-grained peptide models for self-assemblyScott P Carmichael
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
J Phys Chem B 116:8383-93. 2012..In particular, we present results for a polyalanine case study, with attention to both individual peptide folding and large-scale fibril assembly...
Smoothing protein energy landscapes by integrating folding models with structure predictionAri Pritchard-Bell
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biophys J 101:2251-9. 2011..Conversely, detailed predictions of structures and the relative entropy approach enable one to extract coarse topographic features of protein landscapes that may enhance the development and application of simpler folding models...
Can peptide folding simulations provide predictive information for aggregation propensity?Edmund I Lin
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 5080, USA
J Phys Chem B 114:11899-908. 2010..Importantly, these models quantify the importance of different molecular properties in aggregation driving forces; notably, they suggest that hydrophobic interactions play a dominant role...
The search for the hydrophobic force lawMalte U Hammer
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Faraday Discuss 146:299-308; discussion 367-93, 395-401. 2010..Such a model may be useful for theoretical studies of the HI over the broad range of scales observed in SFA experiments...
Charge effects on the fibril-forming peptide KTVIIE: a two-dimensional replica exchange simulation studyJoohyun Jeon
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biophys J 102:1952-60. 2012..Our results suggest that sequence changes can have significant effects on self-assembly through not only direct peptide-peptide interactions but conformational entropies and degeneracies as well...
Coarse-graining errors and numerical optimization using a relative entropy frameworkAviel Chaimovich
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 5080, USA
J Chem Phys 134:094112. 2011..Finally, we demonstrate the application of these theoretical considerations and algorithms to a simple, instructive system and characterize convergence and errors within the relative entropy framework...
Two-dimensional replica exchange approach for peptide-peptide interactionsJason Gee
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 5080, USA
J Chem Phys 134:064112. 2011..The results for these systems are compared to those from conventional REMD simulations, and demonstrate good convergence properties, low statistical errors, and, for the leucine zippers, an ability to sample near-native structures...
Computational characterization of the sequence landscape in simple protein alphabetsM Scott Shell
Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Proteins 62:232-43. 2006..Our calculations suggest that model-specific features can have a profound effect on protein design algorithms, and our methods offer a number of ways by which sequence landscapes can be quantified...
